Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of March 22; Stratodesk, HiddenLayer, Netskope, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news for the week of March 22. This curated list features endpoint security and network monitoring vendors such as Stratodesk, HiddenLayer, Netskope, and more.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant endpoint security and network monitoring news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news items.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of March 22

Stratodesk Partners with Island; Enterprise Browser Now Included in NoTouch OS

Stratodesk, a workspace operating system and security solutions provider, this week announced its new strategic partnership with Island, a leader in the Enterprise Browser market, to offer customers an integration of the Island Enterprise Browser in its NoTouch OS. “This partnership marks a significant milestone in accelerating modernization in the enterprise,” said Richard Greene, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Island. “Stratodesk enables this evolution by modernizing and simplifying the OS — helping organizations lengthen the lifespan of their hardware investments and simplify operational complexity. Partnering with Island advances this evolution by modernizing the browser, the now de-facto access point for the majority of business-critical applications. Together, this partnership reduces cost and complexity with a more modern endpoint — empowering businesses to thrive in the modern era.”

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HiddenLayer Launches AI Detection & Response for Generative AI

HiddenLayer, a security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, this week announced the launch of its latest product: AI Detection & Response for Generative AI. The new capability comes as part of HiddenLayer’s platform, formerly known as MLDR, extending HiddenLayer’s end-to-end security to organizations deploying LLM-based applications. “HiddenLayer’s AI Detection & Response allows organizations to responsibly navigate the risks associated with Generative AI, facilitating safe adoption of AI across industries,” said Chris “Tito” Sestito, Co-Founder and CEO of HiddenLayer. “By empowering CISOs and security leaders to bring Generative AI technologies to their organizations with responsible controls, this launch stands as the latest step in our mission to help enterprises protect their most valuable technology.”

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Appdome Delivers “World’s First” Real-Time Defense to Social Engineering Attacks on Mobile Apps

Appdome, a mobile app security solutions provider, this week unveiled its new Social Engineering Prevention service on the Appdome Platform. The new service enables mobile brands to continuously detect, block and intervene the moment social engineering attacks attempt to exploit user trust or manipulate user behavior. The new service includes several new real-time defenses against voice phishing (vishing), remote desktop control, FaceID bypass, fake applications, and SIM swapping, all of which protect user safety, brand reputation, business continuity, and revenue generation. “Social engineering attacks tend to go where users are most vulnerable and, right now, that includes the mobile app and device,” said Katie Norton, Research Manager of DevSecOps at IDC. “Mobile brands and their users face serious consequences when social engineering attacks are successful, so organizations need solutions that can help detect and prevent such attacks for their mobile applications.”

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Akamai Research: “Abusing the DHCP Administrators Group to Escalate Privileges in Windows Domains“

Akamai researchers discovered a new privilege escalation technique affecting Active Directory (AD) environments that leverages the DHCP administrators group. In cases where the DHCP server role is installed on a Domain Controller (DC), this could enable them to gain domain admin privileges. The technique is based on abuse of legitimate features and doesn’t rely on any vulnerability. Therefore, a fix for it doesn’t exist. In addition to providing a privilege escalation primitive, the same technique could also be used to create a stealthy domain persistence mechanism. Microsoft DHCP server is very popular; it was observed running in 40 percent of the networks monitored by Akamai. Any environment running this server could be vulnerable.

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Netskope Named a Leader in Security Service Edge Solutions by Forrester Research

Netskope, a leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), this week announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Security Service Edge Solutions, Q1 2024. In the report, Forrester Research, Inc. evaluated 11 of the most significant vendors in the Security Service Edge (SSE) Solutions market based on 25 criteria that address each vendor’s current offering, strategy, and market presence. In this evaluation, Netskope received the highest score in the Current Offering category, which Forrester outlines as “Key criteria for these solutions include technology securing the remote workforce (SWG and CASB), replacing VPN solutions (ZTNA), delivering from a broad, fast network, and protecting data both on-premises and in the cloud.” Netskope received the highest scores possible in 12 criteria, including the Vision and Innovation criteria of the Strategy category.

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Solutions Review Solution Spotlight March Madness

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

March 26 with Cohesity

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with ransomware protection and data storage solutions provider Cohesity. Join Cloud Solutions Architect Edwin Galang for a discussion on the threat ransomware poses to enterprises today and how Cohesity’s FortKnox solution can help stop ransomware in its tracks. Cohesity FortKnox is a cyber vaulting solution that provides an always available, secure copy of data in the cloud that prevents IT teams from having to make the hard choice between data security and speed of recovery.

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March 27 with Amplitude

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered with Amplitude, a product analytics and event tracking platform provider. Join VP of Growth Laura Schaffer as she provides an overview of the company’s platform, show viewers how they can apply data insights into their product-led growth workflows, and use those workflows in their ongoing marketing efforts.

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March 28 with High Gear

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered with HighGear, a no-code workflow & process management software platform. Join Sales Engineer Jerry Grue as he provides an overview of HighGear’s capabilities and illustrates how its no-code platform can help companies manage their work.

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